Title: Video shortcode not working IOS
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Video shortcode not working IOS

 *  [chrispink](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chrispink/)
 * (@chrispink)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/video-shortcode-not-working-ios/)
 * the inbuilt [video] shortcode doesn’t seem to work on IOS7 or 8.
 * The poster frame shows but the video doesn’t start.
 * No error message.
 * an example: [http://www.karenmann.co.uk/](http://www.karenmann.co.uk/)
 * the code;
 *     ```
       [video src="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTh4u4fAxLA" width="596" height="335" poster="http://www.karenmann.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/gmtv-poster.jpg"][/video]
       ```
   
 * Any ideas peeps?

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 *  [juggledad](https://wordpress.org/support/users/juggledad/)
 * (@juggledad)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/video-shortcode-not-working-ios/#post-5723197)
 * what format is the video? It doesn’t run in Safari on my Mac either
 *  Thread Starter [chrispink](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chrispink/)
 * (@chrispink)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/video-shortcode-not-working-ios/#post-5723219)
 * The video is delivered by youtube so the quick answer is I don’t know. There 
   seems to be a number of issues with <video> on IOS. I can use a direct iframe
   embed but the client want’s poster frames.
 * I only came across this issue because WordPress ‘claimed’ to have included it
   as a core feature. I may have to go back to the old-fashioned javascript methods
   for a poster frame.
 * Possible issues with <video> on IOS are;
 * mime type for the video – but if I don’t know what youtube is delivering that
   doesn’t help
 * and
 * setting “controls=true” in the <video> tag
 * as per this article;
 * [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20347352/html5-video-tag-not-working-in-safari-iphone-and-ipad](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20347352/html5-video-tag-not-working-in-safari-iphone-and-ipad)
 * incidentally it works fine in Safari 5.1 on MacOS
 *  Thread Starter [chrispink](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chrispink/)
 * (@chrispink)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/video-shortcode-not-working-ios/#post-5723223)
 * This is the output of the video shortcode;
 * <div style=”width: 596px; height: 335px; ” class=”wp-video”>
 * <!–[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement(‘video’);</script><![endif]–>
 * <video class=”wp-video-shortcode” id=”video-2-1″ width=”596″ height=”335″ poster
   =”[http://www.karenmann.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/gmtv-poster.jpg&#8221](http://www.karenmann.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/gmtv-poster.jpg&#8221);
   preload=”metadata” controls=”controls”>
 * <source type=”video/youtube” src=”[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTh4u4fAxLA&_=1&#8243](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTh4u4fAxLA&_=1&#8243);/
   >
 * [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTh4u4fAxLA](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTh4u4fAxLA)
 * </video>
 * </div>

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